Improvement in garters



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Garters.

Patented May 12,1874.

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A UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. EOUsE, OE EEIDGEPOET, CONNECTICUT.

lMPROVEMENT IN GARTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,690, dated May 12,1874; application filed March 21, 1874.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. HoUsE, of Bridgeport, in the county ofFairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement inGarters; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings making part of this specification.

My invention has for its object the construction of a metal garter whichshall obviate the objectionable weight of metal incident to theirconstruction when the coil of'which the garter is composed is made fromwire.

Garters, when made of wire, as now in oomvmon use, are objectionable,since the weight of metal tends to indent that part of the body to whichthey are applied, aside from suoli tendency due to the tension of thecoil.

By my invention a spring-garter is produced which has even greatertensile strength than o the wire spring-garter, while, at the same time,

i lter constructed on my improved plan, two

coils, A, being used to form the garter, and held together by bands Eand end plates B, as shown. These coils are made of very thin strips, a,out from sheet metal which has been rolled to the desired thinness, thestrips being cut of an unbroken length sufficient to form the length ofcoil desired for the garter. These strips, when cut, are then, either byhand or by machinery, wound around a mandrel having an elliptical orflattened form, so that when the coil is made it will have the form asclearly shown in Fig. 6, which gure is a somewhat enlarged view incross-section of Fig. 1. B B represent clasp-plates secured to theextremities of the coils, which inclose a flexible stay,

c, to limit their extension. The stay c is of a length a little short ofthe limit to which the coils A can be extended without injury, and ismade in the form of an endless band passing within and over the endsofthe adjoining portions of the coils.

' Figs. 4 and 5 clearly show the construction of these clasp-plates,which are made with two separated tongues, d d, which may have barbs eprojecting therefrom, as shown.

Fig. 2 represents one of these clasp-plates attached to one of thecoils, which attachment is effected by thrusting the tongues into thecoil, so that the barb c will engage itself in the coil, as showninFigs. l and 2, after which the point of the barb is struck down uponthe coiled strip a, and thus secured thereto. This being donea cap, B',as shown in Fig. 3, is passed over the ends of the garter and made to tsnugly upon the ends of the coils, and is held thereon by having thecenter ofthe cap,

as at f, depressed or struck down, so as to` tightly clasp the coils. Atone end of the garter the clasp-plate B is formed with a claspbutton, asat g, fitted to enter the button-hole or slot g' inthe clasp-plate atthe opposite end of the garter, and so lock or fasten the garter uponthe leg of the wearer. A

To alford additional length to the garter, claspdisks C, with slots gtherein, are attached to the garter, and are connected with theclasp-plate and each other by projecting hooks i, as represented in Fig.7 y

Between the clasping ends of the coils, at one or more points, bands Eof thinfmetal are 'secured around the coils, in order to hold the coilsin proper lateral position, and prevent them from unduly separating orinterlocking with each other. These bands are made to tightly fit uponthe coils by striking down the metal of whichV they are composed at apoint where the coils laterally adjoin.

What I claim as'my invention isl. An uncovered fiat metal spring-garter,

having its adjoining springs connected and` stayed at one or more pointsbetween its .fastening ends, substantially as described.

2. A stay, c, arranged within an uncovered flat metal spring garter orband, constructed substantially as described.

3. The extension-disks C, in combination with the coils A, constructedsubstantially as described.

4. An uncovered elastic garter, the coils of which are composed of asingle strip of thin at metal, substantially as described.

HENRY A. HOUSE. Witnesses:

GEORGE C. Brsnor, ALEORD B. BEEns.

